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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: What's the typical RAID10 setup?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:10:46 -0500
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On 1/31/2011 2:53 PM, Roberto Spadim wrote:
> if you have a bigger and bigger and bigger disk configuration and only
> two mirrors you still with  50%

No, it goes down with more disks since you still can only tolerate a
single failure, so the more drives you have, the more likely it is that
two will fail.